Oxbridge

[ oks-brij ]

noun

1. Oxford or Cambridge University, or both, especially in contrast with the redbrick universities of England.
2. upper-class intellectual life in England, as felt to be under the influence of Oxford and Cambridge universities:

   a bitter attack on Oxbridge by the younger writers.

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of Oxford and Cambridge, or of upper-class, intellectual traditions or manners associated with these universities:

   a career formerly open only to Oxbridge graduates; to voice the proper Oxbridge sentiments.

Oxbridge

/ ˈɒksˌbrɪdʒ /

noun

1. 1. the British universities of Oxford and Cambridge, esp considered as ancient and prestigious academic institutions, bastions of privilege and superiority, etc
   2. ( as modifier )

      Oxbridge graduates

Example Sentences

Oxbridge friend declines my invitation to "dine in Hall," and disappears.

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And, without removing his hobnails, or his corduroys, he sprang lightly into the Oxbridge racing-boat.

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She found two unmistakable bills from Oxbridge beside her plate, and her father was "horrid" at breakfast.

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The middle part of this evaded triad was now being taken up in Marjorie's case by the Oxbridge tradespeople.

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Marjorie received the news of her severance from-182- Oxbridge, Mrs. Pope thought, with a certain hardness.

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